This write-on workbook is intended to provide students with opportunities to consolidate prior learning by revising key knowledge and using their mathematics to solve problems.
A range of key knowledge is revised each week to remind students of what they know.
The problems are designed to make students think mathematically and use problem solving strategies rather than simply recall set procedures.
About Pearson Mathematics
There is a very good philosophy behind the new Mathematics and Statistics curriculum. The aim of Pearson Maths is to bridge the gap between that document and classroom practice. The series emphasises real situations for using and applying mathematics. Two major features of these books are the mini projects and the challenges.
Mini projects
These are open-ended mathematical applications. Teachers need to be able to stand back and behave as facilitators rather than controllers. Children need to be allowed to make mistakes; trial and error is a recognised problem-solving strategy. Likewise the ability to communicate in mathematics is important and the mini projects allow for a variety of ways of communicating. They allow the children to apply their mathematical vocabulary, signs and symbols.
Challenges
These are an added motivation for generally, but by no means exclusively, the more able students.
Teachers' Guides
The Teacher's Guides are the centre of this series. They provide a framework and developmental structure to the teaching of mathematics. Each unit specifies particular Achievement Outcomes taken from the Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum. Each chapter has specific learning outcomes. They provide the teacher with some guidance on how to go about teaching specific objectives. The Guides may give suggestions on how to introduce a concept or provide ideas on how to extend or give further practice. A copy of each pupil’s page is included in the Teachers' Guide as an aid to planning specific activities.
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